The Surefire Difference
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™ SGT. KOCHER WAS AWARDED THE BRONZE STAR FOR HIS ACTIONS IN FALLUJAH. WE HONOR HIS COURAGE AND THE SACRIFICES MADE DAILY BY AMERICA’S FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN. surefire.com ® Publication of Sgt. Kocher’s letter does not constitute or represent endorsement of any SureFire product CONTENTS THE TACTICAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY™ TECHNOLOGY THE TACTICAL 2 SYSTEM OVERVIEW 4 NEW PRODUCTS 2006 6 THE SUREFIRE DIFFERENCE: SUPERIOR TECHNOLOGY 14 HOW TO CHOOSE A LONG GUN WEAPONLIGHT™ 16 MILLENNIUM® UNIVERSAL SYSTEM WEAPONLIGHTS 20 VERTICAL FOREGRIP WEAPONLIGHTS 22 SCOUT LIGHT™ WEAPONLIGHTS 24 DEDICATED FOREND WEAPONLIGHTS 28 CLASSIC UNIVERSAL SYSTEM WEAPONLIGHTS 36 HOW TO CHOOSE A HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHT 38 X200™ SERIES HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS 42 MILITARY SERIES HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS 44 NITROLON® SERIES HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS 46 SOUND SUPPRESSORS 48 PICATINNY RAIL FORENDS 49 LASER SIGHTS 50 HELLFIRE® 52 HELMET LIGHT 54 EDGED WEAPONS 56 EARPRO® BY SUREFIRE® 58 FLASHLIGHTS 62 FLASHLIGHT TECHNICAL CHART 64 ACCESSORIES 66 ABBREVIATED PRODUCT LIST 74 PRODUCT ORDERING / NSN NUMBERING X200 HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS PAGE 38 PAGE SOUND SUPPRESSORS PAGE 46 PAGE Advanced handgun WeaponLights. Featuring a tactical- power LED in an extremely lightweight, compact unit. OVERVIEW SYSTEM MILITARY HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS The most accurate sound suppressors available, providing improved balance and durability. PAGE 42 PAGE EDGED WEAPONS Super-rugged incandescent handgun WeaponLights 54 PAGE designed for battlefield and combat swimmer conditions. TO ORDER: 800.828.8809 > NITROLON HANDGUN WEAPONLIGHTS User-driven designs, superior materials, precision construction, and extreme durability. FLASHLIGHTS PAGE 44 PAGE www.surefire.com PAGE 58 PAGE Polymer body incandescent WeaponLight. Ultra-bright white to infrared, SureFire flashlights are the choice for mission-critical applications. 3 NEW PRODUCTS: 2006 X200® Adapter Mount for 1911 Pistols. Low-profile adapter permits attachment of your X200 WeaponLight to a standard non-rail 1911-type pistol. See page 41. X200 Tape Switch Tailcap. Permits using a SureFire X200 WeaponLight on any long gun equipped with a Picatinny rail. Includes our improved plug-in tape switch (right). See page 39. Plug-In Tape Switch With Rail Clip – Fits SureFire Scout Light, Millennium Universal WeaponLights, and the new X200 Tape Switch Tailcap. Pressure pad section features a snap-on clamp for quick attachment to your Picatinny rail forend and an integral constant- on/off pushbutton switch. AK-47 Picatinny rail forend (M83). Replaces the original forend of your AK-47 to provide top, bottom, and side rails for mounting WeaponLights, lasers, vertical foregrips, or other accessories. See page 48. M78 and M79 Flashlight Mounts – Permits attachment of SureFire flashlights to any long gun equipped with a Picatinny rail forend. The M78 fits Executive and Outdoorsman flashlights; the M79 fits Classic Universal WeaponLights or 1” diameter flashlights. Clamp adjusts for slight variations in flashlight diameter. 4 Helmet Light – Hands-free personal light for soldiers or SWAT team members. Side-mounted unit clamps to MICH helmet and provides low-level white and blue light plus a blinking infrared IFF mini-beacon. See page 52. The B1R Beast Rechargeable Ultra High-Output Flashlight. Improved version of the original Beast. The stunning 2,000-lumen HID lamp is now augmented with an LED array that provides a long- runtime general-use beam, and the power-supply handle now comes in rechargeable and disposable-battery versions. Go to www.surefire.com for more information. See page 61. HellFire™ – Ultra-high output target illuminator for heavy machine guns. Mounts permit placement in front of machine gun’s ballistic shield. Can also be mounted to vehicles or detached for hand-held spotlight use. TO ORDER: 800.828.8809 > See page 50. The Kroma™ – Variable output multi-spectrum LED flashlight. Selector ring lets you choose two levels of white light (15 or 60 lumens), and two levels of low-output/wide-angle light in red and blue. See page 60. www.surefire.com 5 THE SUREFIRE DIFFERENCE: SUPERIOR TECHNOLOGY The weapon-mounted lights you see being used by SWAT teams and military personnel are usually SureFire products. Why? Because SureFire’s advanced technology delivers illumination tools of superior design, materials, ruggedness, reliability, light output, beam quality, and ergonomics. The hardest test of equipment is combat and street duty, and the highest stamp of approval for SureFire products is their widespread use by per- sonnel operating in harm’s way. When your life depends on having the optimum illumination right when you need it, spend the money to get the best — SureFire. Used by more SWAT teams and military special operations units than any other brand. MODULARITY A fundamental benefit for SureFire users is modularity. Our WeaponLights consist of separate components — incandescent lamps, LEDs, reflec- tor modules, bodies, switches, and mounts — that are interchangeable within and often across our main WeaponLight systems, and often inter- changeable with our flashlight parts. This provides three fundamental advantages: • WeaponLights can be quickly modified for particular mission requirements. • Parts from various WeaponLights can be swapped in the field to make repairs or modifications. • An armorer’s stock of spare WeaponLight parts can be put to broader use instead of being limited to specific equipment models. HID LAMPS — THE ULTIMATE HIGH-OUTPUT LIGHT SOURCE High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps do not use a tungsten filament, as do incandescent lamps. Instead, they use a clear quartz capsule (an “arc tube”) having electrodes at either end and containing high-pres- sure xenon gas and additional chemical components. When sufficient voltage is applied to the elec- trodes the gas inside the tube is heated and ionized, enabling it to conduct electricity in the form of an “arc” (basically a sustained electrical spark), and causing it to emit light. When functioning, pressure inside the arc tube rises to several times atmospheric pressure. HID lamps are both extremely bright and highly efficient — with an equal power input, they produce many times the lumen output of a tungsten incandescent lamp — and their operating life far exceeds that of comparable incandescent lamps. An additional benefit: since they have no filament to break or burn out High Intensity Dishcarge (HID) lamp and they are extremely resistant to mechanical shock and vibration. ballast assembly LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES — UNPRECEDENTED RELIABILITY Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are solid-state light emitters. Although the technology and physics involved in producing LEDs is highly advanced, LEDs themselves are physically fairly simple. As shown at right, an LED consists mainly of a solid emitter mounted on a solid base and attached to electrical leads (wires), with a clear polymer covering for protection and/or light focusing. While LEDs can’t yet match the light output of the 6 brightest bulbs (continuous-use LED sources currently have a practical limit of less than 150 lumens), they do offer several distinct advantages over their incandescent kin, including: Light Emitted Forward • Durability. With no glass bulb or filament to break or burn out, LEDs are virtually immune to failure from mechanical shock — from dropping your flashlight onto a rock, for example. Plastic Lens • Longevity. Under normal operating conditions, some high-output incandescent bulbs Silicone Encapsulent have a lifespan of less than 50 hours. In contrast, LEDs used in flashlights can last for thousands of hours. InGaN Semiconductor • Efficiency. LEDs produce more light-per-watt than the incandescent lamps used in Cathode Lead Flip Chip compact flashlights, and — unlike incandescents — LEDs remain efficient at all power Solder Connection Gold Wire levels below their designed maximum output level. This means that as the battery nears Reflector Cup Heatsink Slug exhaustion, an LED will continue to emit light at lower and lower levels, far after an incandescent would have stopped emitting light altogether. In short, with LEDs you get more runtime per battery. LED diagram compliments of Lumileds Lighting LLC. LED Quality — All LEDs are not created equal. Even LEDs produced by the same company, at the same factory, on the same line, on the same day, can exhibit wide variances in color and brightness. LED manufacturers test and sort the LEDs they produce into different “bins” according to color and output, and price them based on performance. SureFire only uses LEDs purchased from the highest-quality bins. XENON/HALOGEN INCANDESCENT LAMPS — HIGH–OUTPUT PERFORMANCE The miniature incandescent lamps that SureFire uses in its WeaponLights and flashlights are not typical off-the-shelf products. They are state-of-the-art devices with the following features: Custom Filaments — The incandescent lamps (“light bulbs”) used in our WeaponLights and TO ORDER: 800.828.8809 > flashlights are designed around a specific power supply, light output, and runtime. Filament performance varies according to wire diameter, filament length, filament coil diameter, total coils, and coil-to-coil proximity. Finally, the finished filament must withstand the vibration and G-forces produced by firearms. Xenon Gas — High filament temperatures (over 5,000°F) cause tungsten atoms to “boil off” the Identical non-SureFire miniature lamps. Left lamp is unused, right filament and migrate to the cooler glass wall of a lamp, where they condense to form a dark lamp shows tungsten